Looking for a champion? We know how to pick and grow them, thereby rendering your partnering efforts efficient and successful. With our expertise and access to the vast startup ecosystem, we screen and match candidates according to managerial quality, market potential, innovation, and timing.

Those startups that survive the cut are put through IMA’s refinement process, in which we sharpen the business value of their ideas and the professionalism of their organization. The result is a product or service that is better positioned and more launch-worthy, which saves resources for our corporate partners, and, just as importantly, time to market.

Behind these capabilities is IMA’s management team. It’s staffed by veterans from all corners of the innovation world, and includes senior executives from high technology conglomerates and some of the planet’s most successful investment funds. Their combined years of professional success enable the optimal selection and development of the best startups around.If you’re interested in discovering brilliant ideas that are more than a diamond in the rough, the IMA is leading the way.

Innovation Acceleration Practice

Why?

We spent the last 15 years gaining the magical 20,000 hours experience, in launching innovative products from the startup eco-system to mobile operators.

Was it easy?

It was one of the toughest jobs. Dealing with a lot of NIH (not invited here…), various types of resistance to change. But also, genuine challenges to the mobile operator market which are around business models, adopting to new technologies, leveraging SAAS/Cloud, duplicating success from other similar markets, etc’.

We also felt that we need to focus on fewer operator’s partners. Building closer relationships with senior management.

Strategic Partnerships gain success!

So we started shaping the current working model. Which we run for the last 4 years. Its based on a lot of joint learning curve which we gain working with 15-17 key mobile operators around the world.

We help mobile operators to identify and priorities the successful products and services that drives their business goals.

IMA shares benchmark from across different operators and Financial companies on success stories and failures. Allowing you to duplicate success of new services, business models, and products.

We help foster entrepreneurship and a startup-mindset in organizations, allowing you to capture ideas from your global eco-system.

We provide corporates access to the startup and help learn, benchmark and deploy products faster.

We manage product deployments through collaboration between startups, corporates and IMA. Based on a 15 year of global experience working with operators.

Playing the innovation/digital transformation game different!

Who is typically involved?

CMO and the marketing team

Business Segment/Corporate customers/SME

Product Development team

CTO and the Network team

Chief Big Data/Chief Digital

CIO and the IT team

Security & Cyber team

For each of the teams a customized product mix is build based on global benchmark.

Key Success Factor:

IMA is collaborating with operators to transform based on C-Level/CEO involvement to increase success rate and build internal commitment.